DOI: 10.36347/sajp.2020.v09i11.006

Pages: 318-329

This review article aims to find information about medicinal plants used to lower blood pressure (antihypertensives). The way to collect data is by using Google Scholar. The keywords used to find information were medicinal plants, antihypertensives, and phytochemicals. The results obtained from tracing information indicate that in the last 20 years of research, there were 21 medicinal plants used as antihypertensive drugs. These medicinal plants are garlic, celery, karira or kerda, chives, Terminalia arjuna, benalu, coconut trees, duck beak, new Chinese leaves, jeringau, prickly acacia, golden, silymarin, benalu parasites, king ulam, Marrubium vulgare, chickpea, nettle leaves, corydalis rhizome, fig, and joho rivet. These plants contain alkaloids, flavonoids, steroids, tannins, saponins, terpenoids, steroids. Plants that have antihypertensive properties contain the most flavonoids. We can be developed these plants into Phyto-Pharmaca for antihypertensive drugs.